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Adrian George
Asked: 2013-08-27 07:33:37 +0800 CST

Find files and pack them using a shell script

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I am trying to find all files which size is higher than $1 (parameter) and zip them using a shell script.

#!/bin/bash

find . -type f -size +$1c = $files
tar -xf $files

But I think this isn't the right solution.

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Assuming your find command works the way you want you just need to change your bash syntax a bit. Also your tar command is extracting -x.

    files=$(find ./ -type f -size +$1c)
#fix names in case there are spaces. Insert \ to escape spaces
goodNames="${files// /\\ }"
tar -czf bigfiles.tar.gz $goodNames
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